The Co-Prosperity Sphere

[CountofDooku]

Chapter 337: National Monarchism: Polish Georgeism/ Jerzyism

The National Monarchism inside the Kingdom of Poland was heavily shaped was heavily shaped by Mashall Józef Piłsudski, who ruled Poland dictatorical from 1926 to 1939. President Ignacy Mościcki who followed him briefly had not the same impact, but President Władysław Raczkiewicz, Foreign Minister Józef Beck, the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army Edward Rydz-Śmigły and the cabinet after him had, as they decided to give the German Empire and the Austria-Hungarian Empire the territories back they lost after the Second Great War. Fashism and Nationalism, as well as antisemitism had by then been long on the rise in Poland, so when Germany and later the Axis Central Powers (mainly Austria-Hungary) made their demands and in return for territory guaranteed the Polish independence. The Ruling Council of the authoritarian state then chosed (after long debates, street battles and even some political assassinations) Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony as the new Polish King of the new National Monarchist pro-Axis Central Power Government. Like all National Monarchism (sometimes called the German Way, or Wilhelmism) the state was authoritarian, but partly democratic, even with a Polish Senate and Parliament (were major aristrocratic families, industrial and military families had their seats). King George I. (Jerzy I.) focussed heavily on the Polish ehtnicity as a hegemonic group and his new state propaganda and that of the Axis Central Power improved the relations with Poland and declared Poland to be the shield of Europe against the mad Barbarism of the Soviet Union ever since the Polish-Soviet war after the First Great War. The Polish population in this newly centralized Empire was more hedrogenous then ever before, as the Polish Kingdom had lost the majority of it's northern, western, southern and eastern territory (were the Kingdom of White Ruthenia and the Kingdom of Ukrainia were created out of the White Ruthenian and Ukrainian minorities there.

Eager to modernize the Kingdom of Poland (Polish: Królestwo Polskie), Georg I./ Jerzy I. Tried to be at best relationships with Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Kingdom of White Ruthenia, the Kingdom of Ukrainia, the United Baltic Duchy and the Russian Empire surrounding his nation with economic and friendship treaties. He modernized the older cavalry in the Polish Army to motorized and tank divisions, buying German and Austria-Hungarian equipment to do so and training his forces alongside their own. Getting rid of his far-right polish nationalists as well as communists and polish royals that opposed him during the Night of the National Monarchy, the new Polish King, his government and his military ruled without opposition and quickly cemented their rule and stability in the nation. His goal to open up the Polish Kingdom for all minorities and faith, including Jews to settle in his new state, earned King Jerzy I. new citizens and good relations with the Kingdom of White Ruthenia in the East. The and the Kingdom of Ukrainia exchanged ethnic populations of one another. King Jerzy I who would later be remembered in the Kingdom of Poland and among the Polish People as Jerzy the Just, Jerzy the Good and even Jerzy the Pole from Saxon, claimed that Love between Catholics, Protestant, and Jewish fellow citizens was the core of the new Polish Kingdom and that declaration earned him some opposition among ultra-national, far-right, socialist and far-left groups. King Jerzy I and his followers claimed that the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had failed, because unlike their own National Monarchist Catholic State, it lacked the hegemony of a majority group in any way or form. The Polish Kingdom therefore was better of as a true ethnic national state and should not expand beyond the borders of it's own polish settlement, but concentrate solely on modernizing it's state, society, industry and army to be truly on-pair with the strong and powerfull Nation States of the Axis Central Power in Central and Western Europe. While some in his government still wished for a expansion to the Teutonic Sea (Baltic Sea) or the Black Sea to get access to the global naval network and to claim a true Polish Sea for themselves.

This modernization and industrialization to modern standrts was possible, because King George I. (Jerzy I.) managed to convince the Polish Ruling Class, it's citizens and even more so the rest of the Axis Central Power, that they should invest in Poland. Poles who had to leave the now once again German, Austria-Hungarian, White Ruthenian and Ukrainian territories and lands, could rely on the Polish Government to build them new, modern houses, financed by the Axis Central Powers that had former polish lands and now settled the once Polish towns and villages and paid for the new buildings, towns and cities in poland as a exchange. At the same time the Imperial German Army heavily financed and building of roads and railways, much to King George I. (Jerzy I.) pleasure who encouraged them and other foreign investors to freely do so. Clearly this Imperial German Army investment was a preparation to increase the infrastructure for the planned Eastern Crusade against the Soviet Union, but King George I. (Jerzy I.) could not care less why they would chose to do so, as long as they did. The reign of King George I. (Jerzy I.) stood under the motto; nationalization (and family), modernisation (and hard work to get there) and a national Polish fatherland.

 

[Analytical Engine]

Freedom through Monarchy continues.

 

[Dan Yampton]

Stalin will probably be portrayed as pure evil post war. So will the soviet union. Meanwhile Poland's economy seems to be doing well, nice update.

 

[CountofDooku]

Georg I./ Jerzy I. will not kill himself like OTL, so he will live longer then just (15 January 1893 – 14 May 1943), question is how long would be plausible? And who will he marry, how many children, what should we name them?

 

[CountofDooku]

Chapter 338: Lessons learned at Midway: Aircraft Carrier Formations and Operations

One of the first lessions the Imperial Japanese Navy and the other Navies of the Co-Prosperity Sphere States learned bitterly from Midway, was the reality of losses they had encountered. Their own heavy losses in Pilots, Airplanes and Carriers meant, that the remaining Japanese Offensive and Defensive Fleets had to be relocated and reorganized, so that every fleet had at least one carrier, that proved to be the major weapon in this new kind of warfare, still remaining. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto therefore implemented a series of changes in personal, tactics, strategy and even building of new, future ships as well as modernizing of older models. He knew the Americans have had severe losses in carriers and pilotes themselves, but they still had reserves and the remaining Allies, mainly Great Britain and France would be able to send their own carriers in a combined Allied Fleet to support them in the Pacific if needed. This and their wast superior industrial, economical and population dominance over the Co-Prosperity Sphere for now, meant that Japan had to come of with new ideas, technology, tactics and strategy quickly if it wished to keep their offensive going and their liberated island defended against the Allied counter-attack that would follow once they had recovered their losses too.

One of the first changes to come, was the implementation of a Deck Park Doctrine (the storing of aircraft on the flight deck) for all carriers. Just like the Royal Navy before the Second Great War, the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft capacity was determined by the hanger size rather than the flight deck size. The United States Navy Carriers mean while normally parked most of their complement on the flight deck and used the hangers for maintenance and repair. As the flight deck offers more storage space, United States Navy Carriers for the same displacement carried larger aircraft complements then their Co-Prosperity Sphere counterparts. This was mostly, because the Japanese believed the hanger provided more protection for both aircraft and crew. While the Japanese did use temporary deck parks during aircraft recovery due to elevator cycles; aircraft were immediately moved to the hanger. This operational method was known as continuous recovery and it was most likely that fighters moved below were wheeled to the fore of the hanger to their proper stowage spots, as the forward elevator cannot be used when recovering aircraft). Before the start of the Second Great War in the Pacific, Imperial Japanese Navy fleet carriers usually embarked about 18 fighters. Half were for escorting strikes, while the other half were for the combat air patrols (CAP). Standard procedure called for one shotai (3 fighters or one Section) to be in the air, 1 spotted for launch, and the last one in a lesser state of readiness. Each fighter was responsible for an air sector adjacent to his home carrier, and in theory the CAP could be directed to any threatened sector. This Imperial Japanese Navy air formation of 3 aircraft shotai, was followed by the 9 aircraft chutai, and finally the 18 to 27 aircraft daitai. The shotai is a much looser version of the RAF "vic" formation.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and many other Japanese Naval Admirals, Vice Admirals and Naval Planners knew that until Midway, when their heavy losses changed the game and their plans to win the war, that Deck Parks needed to be carried out in a at least limited fashion. Two shotai (sections) for a total of six fighters would be added to fleet carrier complement; and be stored, armed and fueled on the flight deck. Light carriers would implement the limited deck park doctrine with only one shotai additionally, due to the overall aircraft availability. The first shotai's purpose on the regulair carrier, is to provide additional and rapid deployment CAP, while the second can do the same or provide additional escort for strike aircraft, while the roles for the shotai on the light carriers were mixed, depending on the situation. This hybrid approach would maintain the Imperial Japanese navy's preference for strong attack capability, whilst helping to address insufficient fighter numbers within fleet carrier complements in a fairly efficient manner and also boost their own fleet defense further. This new tactic, strategy and doctrine was especially good for the Imperial Japanese Navy's Northern Striking Force (5th Carrier Division with the former reserve Carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku of the Shōkaku-class), as they had had fueling stations on both hanger decks, as well as the flight deck. Additinally to this new planes, more life boats were implemented in future battleships and carriers to save as much of the skilled crew, mechanics and pilotes as possible.

This changes were not very costly to implement in terms of times for modernization and ressources. Therefore another idee implemented after Midway, was to make Carrier aircraft formations much more independent from their home carrier. This knew Admiral Yamamoto, would permit maximum flexibility to maintain front line strength. Before this Imperial japanese Navy air groups were organic to the carrier itself, thus should either the carrier or air group be badly damaged both were withdrawn until they could be brought back as a unit. Midway and the heavy Japanese losses received there proved, that this method would be counterproductive for the Imperial Japanese Navy during this war and so the Naval High Command and the Admirality introduced a routating, flexible system, that also exchanged pilotes, instructors, tactics and strategies with the Imperial Japanese Army. Both the IJN and IJA air forces also generelly started to cooperate closer after Midway and planned operations together, were both forces would support each other for the victory of the Empire in the future.

It was also ordered, that every carrier would receive a dedicated Air Defence Officer who would coordinate with the Air Officer to meet the carrier, division or fleet's defensive requirements. The Air Defence Officer would be stationed at the Air Defence Shack, and from there would be able to receive timely urgent intelligence to make effective use of it. Before this, the the carrier's air officer (hikocho) had to run both flight operations and somehow maintain control of the ship's CAP. In effect each carrier was responsible for controlling their own CAP fighters. Furthermore, standing instructions required urgent intelligence to pass thru air group commanders first, which inevitably and often created delays. Midway had proven that these measures were timely and outdated and could easily mean Japans defead against the now awakened giant of America said Admiral Yamamoto and so they needed to be fixed. At the same time dedicated short-range radio frequency for the Combat Air Patrol was implemented, this would permit control of the CAP without interfering with other air operations. Before Modway, the Imperial Japanese Navy IJN carriers communicated with all their aircraft (CAP, Recon and Strike) on a single radio frequency and it was this lack of control that effectively meant the CAP was self directed. This would have to change and many Admirals and Navy Air Officers argued, that every single one of these groups (CAP, Recon and Strike) needed their very own frequencies.

To improve the fleet's anti-submarine patrol and deterrence capability, one carrier in each carrier division (after Midway for many months the only carrier in each group, instead of two) had to contribute to a constant anti-submarine patrol, in opposition to the IJN submarines Naval Hunting Doctrine (and later the IJN submarine Night Hunting Doctrine) against the Allies. Thus a fleet with 2 carrier divisions would have 2 carriers helping to provide the anti-sub patrol, while the other 2 carriers would be "off-duty" status and preparing for other operations and reserves. Each patrol would contain a full shotai (3 aircraft) to increase the chance of detection, and to permit a heavier saturation attack against spotted submarines. Within the fleet, during daylight hours these duty carrier would maintain both a small combat air patrol and anti-submarine patrol (usually two Type 99 Val Dive Bombers). CAP aircraft tended to stay aloft for two hours at a time. On the flight deck a small number of fighters or dive bombers were kept warmed up. Meanwhile, on the "off-duty" carriers crews conducted routine maintenance and training.

To further increase the Imperial Japanese Navies remaining carrier, naval fighter and bomber capacity, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto ordered a additional, new Night Operations Doctrine and equipment for carrier aircraft to complement and support the Japanese superior Night Fighting Tactics with Battle Ships. So the Night Operations Doctrine was developed as part of the Navy's Night Fighting Doctrine (night landing on carriers) and their Night Battle Doctrine (alongside Battleships, Battlecruisers, Cruisers and Destroyers). This effectively increase Japanese carrier power as more sorties can could from now on be flown. A ratio of 1 ordnance cart per 2 attack aircraft (dive and torpedo bombers) would be implemented. The additional carts would be stored below the parked aircraft in the hanger (effectively in the position they would be if they were carrying out arming procedures). This soon increased ratio would noticeably decrease the time required to arm attack aircraft. Before Midway the carriers Akagi and Kaga had a ratio of 1 ordnance cart per 3 torpedo aircraft. Akagi with the smaller torpedo aircraft complement had 6 carts, while the Kaga had 9. As a consequence the arming of aircraft was slowed down drastically and the Imperial Japanese Navy Admirals saw this as one of the main reasons for the Midway Disaster among other problems, that were now planned to get fixed as fast as possible for Japan.

 

[Jaenera Targaryen]

Wow...feels like a hearts of iron game

 

[Anhtuan]

Radio change, not good for America, how they can hear the Japanese plans now.

It will be really funny if the Japanese found out the American crack the old code, and used it to bait Allies fleet.

 

[rommel12]

As the Japanese have the nerve to change the radio frequencies.

The Japanese are going to fight against the Americans in a battle of disgust until the American public loses the will to fight.

 

[CountofDooku]

Chapter 339: National Monarchism or Fascist Royalism in Africa: South Africa:

The Ossewabrandwag (OB) (Ox-wagon Sentinel) in South Africa was an anti-British and pro-German organisation in South Africa during the Second Great War, which opposed South African participation in the war. It was formed in Bloemfontein on 4 February 1939 by pro-German Afrikaners. The main force of Afrikaner nationalism at this time was the "Purified National Party" of D. F. Malan, which broke away from the National Party (also in opposiion of the war) when the latter merged with Smuts' South African Party in 1934. Another important element was the Afrikaner Broederbond (AB, Afrikaner Brotherhood), a quasi-secret society founded in 1918, and dedicated to the proposition that "the Afrikaner volk has been planted in this country by the Hand of God..." 1938 was the centennial anniversary of the Great Trek (the migration of Boers to the interior). The Ossewabrandwag was established in commemoration of the Trek. Most of the migrants travelled in ox-drawn wagons, hence the group's name. The group's leader was Johannes Van Rensburg, a lawyer who had served as Secretary of Justice under Smuts (as Minister), and was an admirer of Imperial Germany. The Boer militants of the Ossebrandwag (OB) were hostile to Britain and sympathetic to Germany. Thus the OB opposed South African participation in the Second Great War, even after the Union declared war in support of Britain in September 1939. While there were parallels, neither Van Rensburg nor the OB were genuine Fascists Royalists or National Monarchists back then. Still, the OB was based on the Führer-principle, fighting against the Empire, the capitalists, the communists, the Jews, the party and the system of parliamentarism on the base of national-monarchism. Members of the OB refused to enlist in the South African forces and sometimes harassed servicemen in uniform. That erupted into open rioting in Johannesburg on 1 February 1941; 140 soldiers were seriously hurt. Even more dangerous was the formation of the Stormjaers (Assault troops), a paramilitary wing of the OB. The nature of the Stormjaers was evidenced by the oath sworn by new recruits: "If I retreat, shoot me. If I die, avenge me. If I advance, follow me" (Afrikaans: As ek omdraai, skiet my. As ek val, wreek my. As ek storm, volg my). The Stormjaers engaged in sabotage against the Union government. They dynamited electrical power lines and railroads and cut telegraph and telephone lines. These types of acts were going too far for most Afrikaners, and Malan ordered the National Party to break with the OB in 1942. Still many white South Africans supported National Monarchist and Fascist Royalist ideas, as their politics towards the natives, were guided by a strict divide between white and black (a system later copied by the Confederate States of America/ Confederacy/ Dixieland/ Dixiecrats for their nation state). Two million white citzens inside South African Union opposed a majority of 6,5 million blacks. The white ruling class hoped to protect their right to rule, because of their hard work for the nation and the land. Their main goal was therefore to protect Wit Suid-Africa (White South Africa) with the clear seperation of whites and blacks, not only economical, political, but also regional. Segregation policy however was not easy to archive, as the daily life of white leaders included work and service by blacks to keep the whole system running. A equaisation of blacks into the living standarts, payment and civilisational standarts of the European civilisation, therefore was undesired by mosts whites in the South African Union and also believed to be unrealistic and dangerous for the state and society.

Further more the growing migration of blacks into the cities of the white peoples, because of the poverty of the Kraal (native enclosured settlements) concearned many. After every drought and bad harvest a wave of hungry blacks swarmed the cities of the white citizens. The ground that the blacks still owned was way to few to support feeding them all, especially with their more primitive methods of farming. This problem and the distribution of property increased the tensions. Only about ten percent of all land was owned by blacks, while they made up 75% of the whole population. The reservation for blacks, that the government had assigned the black population was heavily overpopulated. In Cape Land (Capeland) whites owned 108 african morgan, blacks only 4,3 african morgan. In Oranje whites owned 73 african morgan, blacks only 0,3 african morgan. In Transvaal the whites owned 45 african morgan, blacks 3,7 african morgan. In Naal whites owned 47,3 african morgan, blacks only 2,6 african morgan. This lead to a ever increasing racial tension in the South African Union between whites and blacks, so that the government spend 10 million pound to give at least a part of this land back into the hands of blacks in a attempt to connect a unified region in Transvaal for the settlement of blacks. At the same time this project was supposed to help the black citizens to cultivate the land with modern methods and technology. But this decision did not ease up the racial and territorial tensions and questions in the South African Union, but instead further increased them. White national Afrikaanse movements strongly opposed this policy every day as it quickly lead to a even further increasing black population that was still unable to support itself. While some supported a policy of respect and tolerance for each other, many opposed any form of interracial mixing in the same cities and any form of assimilation. Instead many members of the OB, Stormjaers and other white naitional movements called for a reclaiming of the former Boer Colonies (South African Republic and Organge Free State) as only white dominated and ruled states (a dream later fullfilled by the Apartheit government) thanks to new settlers coming from Europe), supporting at least partly National Monarchist and Fascist Royalist factions in South Africa (that sometimes even including the League of Nations Mandate former German South-West Africa, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Basutoland Protectorate, Swaziland Protectorate and at least in the hopes of some expansionalist Afrikaners, even North and South Rhodesia, as well as Nyassaland).

Some even dreamed of a Greater South Africa, a independent nation with it's own King (according to some national-monarchist and fascist-royalist movements). The Integration of the Protectorates of Bechuanaland (712,247 km2 / 275,000 sq mi with 200,000 citizens), Basutoland (30,355 km2 / 11,720 sq mi with 600,000 citizens) and Swaziland (17,364 km2 / 6,704 sq mi with 125,000 citizens) was the first step to creating a bigger, a Greater South African state that would dominate all of Africa south of the Equator. For this reason some inside Great Britain even proposed the creation of a new, unified Rhodesian Dominion, to counter-balance the growing South African Union dominance inside Africa and the British Empire, a plan not realized until the oubreak of the Second Great War. Some white Afrikaners even argued in support of a Coup against a government, that forced them into a war, they did not want and in their eyes, betrayed them and their society for the appeasement of the uncivilized, black majority. As a result of this growing agression and tensions, the South African Union government cracked down on the OB and the Stormjaers, placing thousands of them in internment camps for the duration of the Second Great War, a move that would prove to be counter prodctive. At the end of the war, the OB was absorbed into the National Party (officially the Reunited National Party/ Herenigde Nasionale Party, RNP/ HNP) and ceased to exist as a separate body. The RNP would carry many of the National-monarchist and Fascist-royalist ideals of the OB and the Stormjeager into mainstream white politics and allow the rise of a racist, pro-German Apartheit regime.

Most of this began with the celebration of the Great Trek in the 1930s, a move that play a major role in the growth of Afrikaans nationalism. It is thought that the experiences of the Second Boer War and the following period, between 1906 and 1934, of a lack of public discussion about the war within the Afrikaans community helped set the scene for a large increase in interest in Afrikaans national identity. The celebration of the centenary of the Great Trek along with a new generation of Afrikaners interested in learning about the Afrikaans experiences of the Boer War catalyzed a surge of Afrikaans nationalism. The centenary celebrations began with a re-enactment of the trek beginning on 8 August 1938 with nine ox wagons at the statue of Jan van Riebeeck in Cape Town and ended at the newly completed Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria and attended by over 100,000 people. A second re-enactment trek starting at the same time and place ended at the scene of the Battle of Blood River.

The commemoration sparked mass enthusiasm amongst Afrikaners as the re-enactment trek passed through the small towns and cities of South Africa. Both participants and spectators participated by dressing in Voortrekker clothing, renaming streets, holding ceremonies, erecting monuments, and laying wreaths at the graves of Afrikaner heroes. Cooking meals over an open fire in the same way the Voortrekkers did became fashionable amongst urbanites giving birth to the South African tradition of braaing. An Afrikaans language epic was made to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Great Trek, Die Bou van 'n Nasie (1938). The film told the Afrikaans version of the history of South Africa from 1652 to 1910 with a focus on the Great Trek. A number of Afrikaans organisations such as the Afrikaner Broederbond and Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging continued to promote the centenary's goals of furthering the Afrikaner cause and entrenching a greater sense of unity and solidarity within the community well into the 20th century. The Great Trek was used by Afrikaner nationalists as a core symbol of a common Afrikaans history. It was done in a way that promoted the idea of an Afrikaans nation and in a narrative that promoted the ideals of the National Party. In 1938, celebrations of the centenary of the Battle of Blood River and the Great Trek mobilized behind an Afrikaans nationalist theses.

The narrative of Afrikaner nationalism would become a significant reason for the National Party's victory in the 1948 elections after the Second Great War. This in turn allowed the party to implement its stated program of apartheid. A year later the Voortrekker Monument was completed and opened in Pretoria by the newly elected South African Prime Minister and National Party member Daniel Malan in 1949. A few years later, "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika", a poem written by Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven referring to the Great Trek, would chosen to be the words of the South African national anthem and the national state would be renamed Afrikaaners Union/ South Afrikaaners Union (Unie van Afrikaander/ Unie van Suid-Afrikaaners). The new regime would implement strict racial segregation and became openly pro-German and friendly towards the Axis Central Powers and even received scientistic, economic and political support while increasing it's own infrastructure and industry. The future Relationship with the British Empire (also known as the Anglican, or English Empire) however remained complicated, as British Premier Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley not only opposed the idea of a South African King on pair with the British King, but also proclaimed to reinforce the Empire, by tieing it closer together. After Mosley's consolidation of the British Isles, he brought back the Dominions (thanks to the fear of a Axis Central Powers and Co-Prosperity Sphere dominance and hegemony over them) into the Empire as dependent territories and secured them as territory, colonies and strenghen the Imperial Loyalists in the British Empire to form a autoritarian, Mosleyist Empire.

 

[miner249er]

of the poverty of the Kraal (naive enclosured settlements)

Naive?

 

[CountofDooku]

Naive?

Native thx

 

[CountofDooku]

Chapter 340: Taikoku transformation inside the Co-Prosperity Sphere:

The State of Taikoku (also Taikukuo or Taijiang, former Guangxi Clique) became a powerfull member of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. The ceeding of the Island of Hainan to Japan wo used it for it's Imperial Japanese Navy, as well as it's Army and Navy Air Force was compensated by a growing infrastructure and industry, that despite the Guangxi Civil War was rebuild and growing thanks to Japanese conglomerates and investors. Roads and railways were quiet expanded inside of Taikoku already and together with the many rivers, the economy and trae grew steadily (afer infrastructure and industry were rebuild after the Guangxi Civil War), exporting Iron, Tin, Wolfram and Cotton over it's ports into the rest of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. The state's own propaganda proclaimed that the major groups, the Tai, Cantonese and Zhuang were so close as cultures and ethnic groups (as well as oher minorities like the Yue, Yao, Miao, Dong, Tujia and ohers) that they were part of their own independent ethnic and cultural group of Taikokuo. Up to 408,382 Japanese lived in Taikoku in 1941/42, mostly along the coasts and rivers, but the majority of the 46,723,000 citizens were members of the Tai, Cantonese and Zhuang, that Li Zongren and his government merged into one thanks to propaganda, education and mixing their culture and archiecture in every city whenever they could. Besides a large Japanese colony, even before the outbreak of the Second Great War, the Chinese Civil War or the Pacific War, Taikoku was one of the most heavily populated member states of the Co-Prosperity Sphre besides Japan, Chosen, Manchuria, Yankoku and National Han China. Taikoku was also one of the most modernised, industrialised regions with a great infrastructure.

It's military tradition and industry allowed Taikoku to supply and equip one of the biggest Armies and Navies in the Co-Prosperity Sphere, right from it's early days on. Canton (Guangzhou) Steel Works, Taikoku Railways, Nanning Heavy Industries, Canton Army Arsenal, Wuzhou Industries and Nanning Army Industries supplied the growing Imperial Taikoku Army that rose above 1,000,000 troops of the original Guangxi Clique. Some of this forces had a very questionable loyality to the new government and so Li Zongren used political commissar (Zhengwei), a political officer corps, that used surveillance. The Zhengwei were first mentioned in Li Zongren's military and political guidance book "For My Soldiers". Government party activities were propagated throughout the military and these uniformed political military officers, sometimes were civilian party and government officials that should keep the forces in line and gain experience in he military at the same time. The Zhengwei was a political government cell within the military and much of the government and it's partys were also former military members, up to the highest ranks. This earned Taikoku the wrong prejudice of being a military junta in much of the Co-Prosperity Sphere and the rest of the world. Purely political Zhengwei of the party and government often served as observers and second-in-command, because of their lack of true military training and education during their first years in Taikoku's Imperial Army and Navy forces. This system allowed Taikoku to grow it's army to 4,000,000 forces at the heigh of the Second Great War, with nearly 2,000,000 fighting in the Chinese Civil War, Burma and the Pacific (New Guinea). Thanks to the Zhengwei system, the majority of this forces remained loyal and only few defected to the enemy, local bandits or worked as their spies and saboteurs. The Imperial Taikoku Army used a wide variation of imported and dublicated Allied (British, French and American) equipment (everything from tanks to airplanes) from before the war, own Chinese build models and imported Japanese ones. The Imperial Taikoku Navy either used bought older Japanese vessels, or build it's own ships at Canton/ Guangzhou Naval Yards, Nansha Shipbuilding Yards, Jiangmen Naval Industries, Zhuhai Shipyards, Wuzhou River Yards, Nanning River Fleet Yards and Liuzhou Shipyards. While many of it's naval forces were cruisers, destroyers, as well as battleships and carriers (the new pride of the Taikoku Navy) intendet to rule the Taikoku Sea (South Chinese Sea), nearly half of the Imperial Taikoku Navy actually was made up by riverboads and escorts to guard the huge river transportation network troughout the new state.

 

[CountofDooku]

Chapter 341: The Ma Umau Rebellion and Uprising:

The Allies believed the Italians to be beaten inside of East Africa and declared that Ethipoia would soon be released as a independent nation once again. A few Italian Soldiers (a mere Brigade) however managed to escape with their equipment into the British Kenya Colony, were they allied with anti-British freedom fighters and rebells. These Kenya Liberation Movement called itself Ma Umau, meaning “Our Grandfathers”, a term used since the revolt of 1938 led by Muindi Mbingu during which he urged the colonists to leave Kenya so that his people (the kamba) could live freely like the time of “Our Grandfathers” (Twenda kwikala ta maau mau maitu, tuithye ngombe to Maau mau maitu, nundu nthi ino ni ya maau mau maitu). The italians learned Uma Uma, a communication code used by the Kenyan guerrillas and managed o ally the Kikuyu, Meru, Embu tribes as well as the Kamba and Maasai to their cause against the white European colonist-settlers and government of the British. The British responded by using parts of the British Army and Colonial Forces originally meant for Egyot and Syria to opress the rebellion alongside armed white colonial settlers and local auxiliary militia, like some pro–British Kikuyu people. The Free French forces in East Africa were send to Syria and Egypt, together with the majority of Commonwealth Forces, but some Indian and African Commonwealth Soldiers remained to aid the British against the Rebellion in Kenya.

The Italien help and training for the Ma Umau Rebellion with what little equipment and weapons they had brought with them ino Kenya helped the rebellion to start again. They originally raided a few colonialist farms and villages to gather further supply, inspireing some local auxiliary militia in Kenya sympathic to the rebells and the Kenyan independence to join them. Over time their rebellion would divide the European colonial community in Kenya and the metropole and the natives. The rebellion would also violently divide the Kikuyu community. Luckily for the British, the Ma Umau Uprising remained internally divided, despite Italian and later Imperial German attempts to unify the factions and also failed to capture widespread public support. This was partly because the movement was so divided and violent and the British and the Allies had a policy of divide and rule. However while the Free French, for the sake of their own Colonial Empire supported the British, the Americans and even the Soviet Union supported a decolonialisation, including a independend Kenya. This prevented to harsh British tactics and strategies during the Second Great War as long as the British and Free French were heavily depending on American and Soviet support in fighting the Axis Central Powers and the Co-Prosperity Spere. In 1944 the Kenya African Study Union (later the Kenya African Union) started to support the Ma Umau Rebellion. The British Empire tried a policy of divide and rule, but even many native Kenya citizens that not agreed with the Ma Umau wished for independence and self-rule. The fight against the Ma Umau would cost Britain £55 million alone, during it's twelve years of uprising and rebellion, while the whole Second Great War would cost the British Empire a total of £55 billion.

 

[Dan Yampton]

ahh.... The sun never sets on the british empire Nice update.

 

[CountofDooku]

ahh.... The sun never sets on the british empire Nice update.

Thank you very much. ^^

 

[CountofDooku]

Much like most of my TL's I've planned this out quiet far and we will see shorter chapters once the Second Great War is over and we focuss on other major global crisis and developments instead of single battles and such. From there on I will slowly but steady lead TTL to 2034, exactly hundret years after the coup that was TTL POD. After it we will have a nice final chapter, but don't you all worry I'll write other TL's and even new ones after it. ;D

 

[CountofDooku]

Chapter 342: The American Homefront:

The Second Great War was not very popular with the American Public to say the least. Many even pro-American newspapers depictet it as the war to save European Colonies, or Stalin's reign of terror. The American First Commitee and similar organisations outright called for a end of the war, with popular spokesman like Charles Lindbergh to support their cause. Many Germans, Ukrainians, Russians and other European Minorities or their descandence in America supported the Axis Central Powers at least partly over the Allies, most because they opposed Stalin and supported the Tsar even printing their own newspaper to spread their opinions further. Even many Leftists were against the War, even if it helped the Soviet Union as they believed the new rush of Patriotism was a distractions from America's own social and economic problems in the working class and the trade union. Many Communists and Socialists soon changed their mind, as the war changed the United States. During the course of the war the nominal GDP more then doubled, wages and salaries nerly tripled, as did Federal civilian employment and female employment. Labor Union membership grew by over 50 percend and the national debt soon ballooned by over 600 percent. Many on the Left believed that the war sooner or later would bring a socialist American revolution and with it socialism to America with all this changes.

In the Midwest and among the Military many did not support the war either. Many military members, after the devastating losses of the Philippine Sea and Midway had shown the Japanese superiority and, even worse the incompetence of their own commanders and leaders in this war, despite having intellgience of the enemies codes, felt their brothers, friends and family members died for nothing because the wrong people were leading them to battle. Many Businessmen, Southerners and people of British descendant however supported the war like the government of America did, while many Jews were split over the whole struggle in Europe and did not care that much about the Pacific.

The whole situation tensed once more, as President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 after Axic Central Power spies were cought by the FBI at the East Coast (Amagansett New York, Jacksonville Florida), brought there by submarines to sabotage, spy and after a Japanese submarine had surfaced and bombed Los Angeles earlier. The Executive Order 9066 removed all Issei (Japanese Nationals) and Nisei (Japanese Americans) from the west coast and many Germans, Ukrainians, Russians, Bulgarians, Romanians, Hungarians, French, Spanish and other European Minorities nationals and descandents into Internment Camps in the Midwest, for the suspition of spying or sabotating for the enemy. Or in some chases publish war critic newspapers and propaganda to undermine the American war support. As the War Powers Act had given the president sweeping powers to conduct the war, allowing him to initiate and terminate war contracts, set government agencies for wartime priorities, freze foreign assets and censor the media if he wished, many Americans saw this new powers and politics with worries. They linked these different decisions together and pointed out that even FDR's New Deal poliic had already looked a lot like what Hitler had done in Germany to boost and rebuild the German Economy. Some even feared that President Roosevelt wished to become a American Dictator with the help of this Great War and questioned his motivations for the whole war even stronger than they had before.

This of coarse, played right in the hands of Isolationist and anti-war movements. The American First Committee alone had over 1,200,000 members at his height during 1941/42 and while they were advocating to stay out of the war completely, they also supported improving America's defence and strenght to deterrent the Axis Central Powers and the Co-Prosperity Sphere to respect American independence and the Monroe Doctrine. These groups and their agitation would lead to the growing support of the American First Party in 1944 and their participation in the 1944 US Elections (and the loss of FDR against the new President Dewey during it), as well as the rise of the Southern Dixiecrat faction breakaway of the Democratic Party. The great division of the american public and nearly every citizens family over the Second Great War and the issues comign along with it, as well as the rise of National Monarchist, Fascist Royalist, Socialist and Communist Groups along with it would nearly lead to a Second American Civil War. Their divide of the American people and state would -along with the huge debt, unemployment and the unability of the Allies (Great Britain and Free France) to pay the Americans- ultimately pave the way for the Divided States of America. Unwilling to start a hot American Civil War once again, as america had seen enough dead citizens and was already hugely in debt, President Dewey did what was best (but not what was popular among the military and somep politicans and citizens) and let the secessionist states go. He focussed on rebuilding the American economy, tried at least neutral or partly friendly relationships with the new American States and always reminded the public that he was willing to reintegrate the states that had left if this was what they wished. Dewey's isolationism would help the United States to recover after the Axis Central Powers and the Co-Prosperity Sphere had defacto won the Second great War once America and soon after Great Britain and the Commonwealth ended with it with a White Peace and thereby also ended the Allies participation in it.

 

[CountofDooku]

Yes, without the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as the casus belli and the war's low popularity in America TTL, the American First Commitee has not ended TTL, but instead grown it's membership and influence.

 

[Anhtuan]

Executive Order 90”66”

Is that Palpatine reference? I love it.

 

[CountofDooku]

Is that Palpatine reference? I love it.

Sadly no. Maybe the other way around:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066